Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Directional voice sensing using coherent optical detection
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Application No.: US18376262Application Date: 2023-10-03
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Publication No.: US12334096B2Publication Date: 2025-06-17
- Inventor: Eran Tal , Ariel Lipson
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
- Main IPC: G10L21/0232
- IPC: G10L21/0232 ; G01H9/00 ; G01S7/52 ; G01S15/89 ; G10L25/84 ; H04R1/22 ; H04R23/00

Abstract:
An electronic device includes a microphone, an array of coherent optical emitters, an array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors, and a processor. Each balanced coherent optical vibration sensor in the array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors is paired with a coherent optical emitter in the array of coherent optical emitters. The processor is configured to analyze a set of waveforms acquired by the array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors; identify, using the analysis of the set of waveforms, a set of one or more voices in a field of view; and adjust an output of the microphone to accentuate a particular voice in the set of one or more voices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20240029752A1 Directional Voice Sensing Using Coherent Optical Detection Public/Granted day:2024-01-25
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